Coyotes planning to be sellers at trade deadline

Arizona Coyotes general manager Don Maloney said the team will be sellers leading up to the March 2 trade deadline. Having already traded goalie Devan Dubnyk to the Minnesota Wild earlier this month, Maloney said the team will continue to build for the future instead of trying to improve this season.

Having already traded goalie Devan Dubnyk to the Minnesota Wild earlier this month, Maloney said the team will continue to build for the future instead of trying to improve this season. Maloney said he spoke to new majority owner Andrew Barroway during All-Star Weekend and they both agreed that rebuilding is the right strategy.

"Now through to the deadline, we do have players that are proven playoff players," Maloney said. "Everybody looks for who can play defense, who can help you win, who can touch the little areas of the game -- we have players like that. We like them all -- we'd like to keep them all -- but our mandate now is to acquire as many young assets as we can and grow this thing from the ground up."